This is an analysis of the poem Scented Herbage Of My Breast that begins with:

SCENTED herbage of my breast,
Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused best afterwards,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbdefgedafhXicgjjcjbXabeiafXajaakiXghghlXXflkgadmdlghmlX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011 101111100011100 11101101011011 010011110101111 1001 1001111011011011 10101 111111010101001011 0111101101010 11011100111011010 11100110101 1101101010110010 1111111111011011 1100 11101101111111111 11110100011111111 101 10100011010100100 01111 1110011111101110 101101011 11111001001001010 10 11111101001101001 111110110101011 0111111111010011 11 111011111111101 1 0101000111 111101011111011 11011110110011 1110100100110111 1011011 10101010111111111 0110111101101 1001001110101 1011111110101001100 11011 1010001001010101 101101001001100110 101 111010101101010 1111111111101001 111011111010110111 1100100001011111 101011011101011110 1 11000101111001010 111011010111011 111011 1101011001010100 1010100100110011101 1 110110110101 11001101001010010 110111001110111110 1 11011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 557
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; leaves, you, o, me, death, to, i, that, for, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, do, i, through, give, that are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase death connects the lines.

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